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M. 'BERSTBD. SHEET METAL HANDLE.

No. 522,398. Patented July 3, 1894.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFIQE'G MARTIN BERSTED, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,ASSIGNOR TO THE CHICAGO STAMPING COMPANY, or SAME'PLACE.

SH EET-METAL HAN DLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 522,398, dated rui s,1894'.

. Application filed December 29,1893. Serial No. 495,074:- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARTIN BERSTED, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Sheet-Metal Handles, ofwhich the following is a specification, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, which 'are made a part hereof, and in which--Figure 1 is a view showing the improved handle partly in side elevationand partly in longitudinal section, on the line 1-'1, Fig. 2.

Fig. 2 is a view thereof partly in elevation (from the under side) andpartly in longi tudinal section, on the line 2-2, Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 4are transverse sections on the lines 3-3 and 4-4, respectively.

.The object of the present invention is to provide a sheet-metal handleof such construction that it will be of greater strength,

have fewer obtrusive angles and corners and have a more finishedappearance than sheetmetal handles as heretofore constructed, and tothese ends the invention consists in the features of novelty that areparticularly pointed out inthe claims hereinafter.

Theimproved handle is formed of a single blank having a portion that isbent into the form of a tube to form the grip A and other portions thatare bent to form the arms B, B, which project downward from the grip andhave at their extremities ears I) that. are adapted to be secured to acan, tub, or other article. In the completed article the arms areextremities of the top longitudinal half of the grip, and thence towardand past the lower half, so that they completely close the ends of thegrip and present. curved shoulders at C.

By bending the blank so that the flanges of the arms (or, in otherwords, their concave surfaces) are presented inward,"and joining thearms to a portion of the grip that is curved laterally in the samedirection-or, in other words, by making the arms and the portion of thegrip from which they proceed convex ontheir outer surfaces-the completedhandle has much greater strength at the shoulders C than it would haveif these portions were concave on their outer surfaces. This is becauseit allows the use of arms which, where they join the grip, may extendlaterally through half the circumference of the grip, and it"also allowsa greater amount of lateral curvature.

Preferably the margins of the metal of which the grip is formed are madeto simply abut against each other, but if desired-they may be securedtogether in any suitable way.

The grip may if desired have a wooden core which completely fills it, asshown at D in Fig. 3.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-= 1. As anew article of manufacture, a sheetmetal handle having a hollow tubulargrip convex on its top surface, and hollow arms of curved shape incross-section proceeding centrally from the extremities of the toplongi* tudinal half of the grip and thence toward and past the otherhalf, closing the ends of the grip, the outer surfaces of the arms beingconvex and merging with the surface of the top of the grip in roundedshoulders whose outer surfacesare convex, substantially as set forth.

2. As a new'article of manufacture, a sheetfilling the grip and armsproceeding from the extremities of the top longitudinal half of.

the grip and thence toward and past the other half, closing the ends ofthe grip, and preventing the core from slipping out endwise,substantially as set forth.

MARTIN BERSTED. Witnesses:

N. C(GRIDLEY,

, J. B. HALPENNY.

